The dispersal of five group II introns among natural populations of Escherichia coli

RNA

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1294-1307

  Dai, Lixin ^a   Zimmerly, Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

ECOR strains; Retroelement; Reverse transcriptase; Ribozyme

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS, POPULATION; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036795276     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838202023014     Document Type: Article

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